Invasion, Walter Dean Myers
Invasion, Walter Dean Myers
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Invasion

Author: Walter Dean Myers

Narrator: Nick Cordero

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/24/2013

Synopsis

Walter Dean Myers brilliantly renders the realities of World War II. Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere. One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in common as they approach an experience that will change them forever. It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the globe, people are filled with fear. When Josiah and Marcus come together in what will be the greatest test of their lives, they learn hard lessons about race, friendship, and what it really means to fight. Set on the front lines of the Normandy invasion, this novel, rendered with heart-in-the-throat precision, is a cinematic masterpiece. Here we see the bold terror of war, and also the nuanced havoc that affects a young person's psyche while living in a barrack, not knowing if today he will end up dead or alive.

About Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults and a three-time National Book Award Finalist as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on September 30, 2013

Invasion is Walter Dean Myers latest war novel. It begins on May 14, 1944 as American troops are preparing for the D-Day invasion of France, which they know will happen but they don't know when. It is narrated by the main character, Josiah "Woody" Wedgewood, who is with the 29th Infantry Division. D......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on July 26, 2013

I appreciated the afterword by Myers and the book. I guess I didn't realize that both Fallen Angels and Sunrise over Fallujah were both born from Myers' connection to the wars (his brother died in Vietnam and his son went over to Iraq). So it was inevitable that he would want to write about another......more

Goodreads review by Margo on September 20, 2013

Award-winning author Walter Dean Myers returns to historical fiction in this riveting new war novel about the D-Day invasion. The novel opens in May, 1944, and Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are waiting in England for the invasion they know will come, but no one knows when. Both are from the smal......more

Goodreads review by 22mooreb on March 27, 2017

it was tolking about a man that was going to war a geanst the other sighd of the army and they was not going to stop until one man is stand. and then go have a selibration I liked the book and I liked it wen it sayed one last man standing......more

Goodreads review by Joe on October 24, 2021

This is the fourth book I've read by this author and I really like his books. This one may be the best of the four. He perfectly captures the life of a common soldier during war. His writing is vivid, the characters real. This book gives voice to the soldiers who stormed Normandy and fought through......more

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